Advertisements and Local Notices Spark Curious Readership
Ads offer 10 cents an inch weekly rates with furnished plates and minimum spends. Local ads priced 5 cents per line, no less than 25 cents. Obituaries under 200 words free for subscribers. extra words billed at one cent each. Miscellany includes quips on money, baseball fandom, and civic matters. News notes report taxation dispute with Seaboard Air Line Rail Road and county auditor idea. crime reports of multiple lynchings in Florida and Georgia.
The New Congressional District Changes
Perry Home Journal discusses the new congressional district plan by Mr. Vinson. It preserves incumbents while shifting six counties from the Third district and adding four, provoking mixed reactions from Crawford Magon Taylor Schley Stewart and Webster allies and opponents. The plan aims for population balance but faces vigorous contention.
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Perry Home Journal
T —Turner
Irwin
Tercell
Worth
Crawford
Magon
Taylor Schley Stewart
Webster
Mr. Vinson
Advice to Farmer Boys and Rural Education
A letter praising farm life as a training ground for leadership and thought. It urges rural schools to teach elementary agriculture and domestic science, fair pay for teachers, and student initiative. It encourages reading, correspondence courses, and asking state stations for farming knowledge, ending with a toast to open minded farmers.
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Moses
Cbrist
Washington
Lincoln
Government Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Institution
Uncle Heory
Campbell News
Young girl essay on man stirs biting gender views
The piece quotes a young girl declaring Men are what women marry. It mocks male vices and claims men are more logical and zoological than women. The essay ends with a joke that both sexes come from monkeys and the woman farther evolved. Also includes a medical ad for rheumatism relief and local sellers.
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Criticising the Bad and the Call to Moral Action
A reflective paragraph questions whether criticism alone suffices and urges genuine personal virtue. It contrasts moral critique with practical good deeds and calls readers to embody integrity.
What would you do to relieve burn or scald pain
In case of a burn or scald prepare to relieve the pain with Chamberlain's Salve. Applied on a soft cloth it relieves pain almost instantly and, if not a very severe injury, helps the skin heal without a scar. Sold by Butler Drug Co including Butler J. G. Hill and Reynolds.
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Chamberlain
Butler Drug Co
Butler
J.G. Hill
Reynolds
The Man Who Never Gives A Square Deal
A sharp aphorism notes that a man who denies fair treatment to others is shocked when he finally faces fairness himself. The saying underscores hypocrisy in ethical conduct and justice.
Seeing the Way Clear and a School Principal Attack
A devotional note urges trust in God to clear difficult paths and cites a Georgia principal who reports relief from stomach and kidney ailments after using Electric Bitters. The ad claims the remedy cures stomach trouble female complaints kidney disorders biliousness and restores vigor with bottles sold at City Drug Store.
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Caris B. Allen
Sylvania
Dreary Old Age by Uncle Walt the Poet Philosopher
A poem in which the speaker laments aging and loss of appetite. He recalls youthful vigor, vivid meals, and the brass horn that summoned feasts, noting growing frailty and longing for the past while addressing Richard Roe.
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Tom
Richard Roe
Uncle Walt
Dr Kings New Life Pills Claim Cure for Constipation
An advert promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills as a remedy to prevent appendicitis by stimulating stomach liver and bowels. It claims relief from constipation headaches biliousness chills and lists a price of 25 cents at City Drug Store alongside a couple’s wedding memory feud anecdote.
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Dr. King
New Life
City Drug Store
Georgia’s Duty to Good Roads urged by Beazley letter
Honry Beazley of Leesburg argues in The Atlanta Journal that Georgia must assume state supervision over road building. He contends that statewide inspection and enforcement would prevent counties with poor roads from dragging others down, and that convict labor could be used to accelerate highway improvement. He emphasizes intercounty interdependence and the need to protect state interests through better roads.
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Honry Beazley
Leesburg
Atlanta Journal
the Journal
C. H. Beazley
Woodworth Co Senpine offer cures asthma and catarrh
An advertisement from Woodworth Co invites readers to request a free trial package of Senpine, claimed to treat asthma hay fever bronchitis and catarrh without regard to duration or climate. The claim notes Vienna University Faculty discovery and wide endorsements. A separate item reports a barbecue dinner for 57 Georgia legislators at Central City Park with over 3,000 attendees.
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New York
Woodworth Co
Broadway
New York City
Vienna University
Georgia
Central Capital Association of Macon
Fair Grounds
Central Oty Park
State News In A Georgia Towns And Notables
A postal savings bank opens in Americus. A Moultrie lawyer pays a fine to avoid a white woman serving time on the streets. McLendon says Judge Hines is bound by law and facts over newspaper ad exchanges for transport. Mrs. Chastain of Montezuma loses and finds a diamond in a chicken’s gizzard. J C Hunter, Savannah veteran, faces another murder hearing with possible commutation efforts. Pine Knot Springs aids a Columbus to Buena Vista highway. Sam Swanason alias Sam Shropshire to hang June 2 in Fulton County. he donates his brain to an Atlanta physician. Bagley plantation near Americus sold for 126k to J D Wittle of Blackville SC, huge peach orchard to be cut down next fall. School children suffer constipation. Chamberlain’s tablets recommended. Sold by Butler Drug Co Butler Ga J G Hill Reynolds Ga.
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Atlanta
Sam Swanaon
Sam Shropshire
Fulton County
Columbus
Butler Drug Co
Butler
J G Hill
Reynolds
Georgia Summer School For Teachers Bulletin Details
The Georgia Summer School for Teachers at the State University in Athens lists dates June 29 to August 2. The faculty is large and capable with lecturers Dr Henry G Williams of Ohio and Dr Lincoln Hulley of Stetson University. Railroads offer reduced rates and many counties plan to send nearly the entire corps of teachers.
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State University At
Athens
Henry G Williams
the Normal College, of
Ohio
Lincoln Hulley
Stetson University
Bulletin
Butler Water Works Company Charter Petition in Taylor County
In Taylor County petitions by R A Scandrett and others seek incorporation of the Butler Water Works Company to operate a water supply system in Butler. Capital stock 2100 dollars, possible increase to 20000, 20 year term, board of directors, power to issue notes and mortgages, amend charter, wind up business by two thirds stock vote. filed April 10, 1911.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Said County
R A Scandrett
Bi Rawls
W E Steed
C E Beans
Eli Garrett
W W Edwards
J W Edwards
Butler Water Works Company
Capital
Butler
Waylor County
Walter Kesteed
T Montfort
O'l Montfort
Millions of Friends Salve Promoted for Sores and Burns
An old time sale blurb touts a salve with claims of curing sores, burns, eczema, ulcers, boils, sprains, and more over forty years. It markets as best in the world for piles and sore eyes, priced at 25 cents at City Drug Store.
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Bucklens Afnica
City Drug Store
Excursion Fares Via Central of Georgia Railway
Travel deals announced for multiple 1911 events with fares from Georgia and other states. Destinations include Atlanta Augusta Evansville Jacksonville Knoxville Little Rock Monteagle and Sewanee with dates from May to August 1911. Details via nearest ticket agent F J Robinson Assistant General Passenger Agent.
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Central of Georgia Railway
Augusta
Grand Lodge No
G. U. 0.0. F. of America
Evansville
Ind
Account General Assembly
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Knoxville
Tenn
Little Rock
Ark
Monteagle and
Sewavee
Monteagle Bible School
Monteagle Sunday School Institute
F J Robinson
Cure for sick headache advertised with stomach cure
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as a cure for sick headache caused by stomach disorders. Free samples offered at Butter Drag Co. in Butter, G Hill Reynolds. The copy ends with an odd line about laughing at a foal and the foal imagining you laugh with him.
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Chamberlain
Butter Drag Co
G Hill Reynolds
Diamond Recovered From Chicken Gizzard In Georgia Yard
In Montezuma Georgia Mes WL Chagtain lost a half carat diamond from a ring while feeding chickens. A chicken later died and the diamond was found in its gizzard, restoring the stone and lowering local chicken prices.
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W. L. Chastain
Montezuma
Chantata
Hau
Taylor County Directory Highlights Local Government
Butler and Reynolds sections list mayors, councils, clerks, marshals and church affiliations. Officials include F. M. Montfort as Butler mayor and J. A. Matthews as Reynolds mayor, with numerous officers, lodges, schools, and transportation schedules noted.
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C. E. Benns
Butler, Ga
Congress
Bacon
Wright
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Meriwether Vindicator
General Assembly
Patrick Henry
Patrick
Chamberlain’s
Lutler
Savannah Press
Macon
J. G. Hill Reynolds
Florida
Lake City
Swainsboro
Crntacaelites
Farmer’s Boys
Man
Chamberlains
J. G. Hill
Maryan Marshall
Woodstock
Cardus
Tor Fletcher
Castoria
Senpine
General Misscellany
Americus
Juawyer
Moultrie
McLendon
Hines
J.C. Hunter
Savannah
Muscogee
Marion County
Buena Vista
H OC
Georgia Summer School For
Grand Lodge of Georgia Knights of Pythias
Jacksonville
Fla
Southern Baptist Convention
Fletcher
Towns of
Butler and
B W. Carter
Marshal—Robt
Anglin
Methodist
Earl W. Anderson
Missionary Baptist
R. H. Blalock
Primative Baptist
Presbyterian
Butler M. & F. College
T. J. Horton
W. W. Edwards
C.C
J. T. Adams
Butler Board of Trade
H. J. Peagler
Ira Chambers
C. B. Marshall
Jas
A. Hollis
W. B. Wilson
O.T. Montfort
J. R. Beeland
W. L. Casey
L. O. Davis
T. F. Layfield
E. G. W. Williams
D. Childree
Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
Pickens Riley
T. Taylor
T. D. Seay
Board of Education
Ww. E. Steed
S. M. Bazemore
Burns
A. M
W. E. Marshall
W. M
R. H. James
Odd Fellows
P. PB. Trawick
Noble Grand
Jones Hicks
Woodmen of the World
Homer Beeland
Emory Seay
Hodges Chapter
E. E. Tredges
H. P
Coleman Institute
Board of School Trustees
R. A. Hinton
J. H. Whatley
F. A. Rick
J. W. Bloodworth
EB. J. Joiner
Z. T. Weaver
J. P. Dell
Chamber of Commerce
T. W. Pool
J. H. Neisler
Potterville
Lodge of Patriotic Sons of America
Frank Kimball
W. H. Tucker
J. W. Rogers
Joe Ellis
Cherry and Cotton Ave
W. F. Weaver
Neisler Building
Bruice McDaniel
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